And when an American Senator, without disguise, sends “a great improvement in fire-arms” to the Rebel chief, then engaged in levying war against his country, he mixes himself in the Rebellion, so that under Municipal Law he is a traitor.
Sumner condemns an American Senator for supporting the rebellion against the United States, labeling him a traitor.
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